Rebecca Taylor

It's the perfect neighborhood, filled with not-so-perfect people. Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood. When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denver's most sought-after developments, Alyson works hard to fit in and impress the other mothers. Bonnie Sloan is the neighborhood matriarch. With her oldest son headed to Yale, and her youngest starting kindergarten, Bonnie is now pursuing her own long-held political aspirations. But it's her middle child, Elijah, and their private family struggles, that cast a shadow over her plans. When the open space behind some of the most expensive homes gets slated for development into an amusement facility, the neighborhood becomes deeply divided. The personal pressures and community conflicts ratchet with every passing day, but it's when a thirteen-year-old boy is found dead beside the lake, that simmering tensions boil over into panic. Gossip flows, lies are exposed, and accusations are made as cracks run through the community's once solid foundations. The neighborhood's faith in exterior appearances is eclipsed by the secrets every house keeps. Rebecca Taylor, author of Her Perfect Life, returns with this fast-paced, engrossing novel that reminds us that nothing is ever as perfect as it seems.

A Novel

The Secret Next Door

Ninety-two days. That's all that's left. Just ninety-two days and Ruth Robinson, calculus genius, will stand with her arms raised in a triumphant V as the valedictorian of Roosevelt High. With her early admit to Princeton's Neuroscience program burning a hole in her pocket, Ruth can hardly wait to show her fellow teenage troglodytes that while she didn't have followers, friends, or "times" in basements, she was the one ending up on top. All she needs to do is white knuckle her way through this waiting place last semester and then, finally, she'll be on her way. Except, the first day back from winter break, Porter Creed shows up. Porter is a special education transfer--Affective Needs. And just like all the other desk flippers and chair throwers in the affective needs classroom, Porter has some major emotional problems. But when Porter strolls onto Ruth's home turf, Advanced Calculus, and disrupts her axis by being both gorgeous and the only person better at math than her--Ruth begins to realize that maybe life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.

Affective Needs

Do we ever really know the ones we love?&nbspReclusive Clare Collins crafts her novels like she crafts her life: perfectly. So the world is stunned when the famous author is found dead on the beach from a self-inflicted gunshot -- the morning after her latest book hits the shelves. Her sister Eileen is at a loss. Clare led a charmed life: success, mansions, money...why would she throw it all away? But while reading through her sister's latest--and greatest--novel, Eileen discovers a clue that unravels the fiction and reveals the painful truth. Suddenly, the life that Eileen had envied doesn't seem so sparkling . . . Her Perfect Life is a page-turning debut that reminds us that no matter the success, everyone has secrets. And some are more devastating than others.

Her Perfect Life

When I was twelve, my mother disappeared. I was the first person to never find her. I'm sixteen now and she has never been found, alive or dead. I'm not the girl I should have been. When Charlotte Stevens, bright but failing, is sent to stay at her mother's childhood home in Somerset England her life is changed forever. While exploring the lavish family manor, Gaersum Aern, Charlotte discovers a stone puzzle box that contains apentagram necklace and a note from her mother-clues to her family's strange past and her mother's disappearance. Charlotte must try to solve the puzzle box, decipher her mother's old journals, and figure out who is working to derail her efforts-and why. The family manor contains many secrets and hidden histories, keys to the elegant mystery Charlotte called mom and hopefully, a trail to finding her.

Ascendant

Annie returns to the boarding school Gunnerkrigg Court for her third year and, with the help of her friend Kat, helps her friends and uncovers mysteries.

Materia

Gunnerkrigg Court 4

Once upon a Lie

Royden Lepp

After Jet Jones and a decommissioned war robot crash into the barn on the Taylor family farm, Roman Taylor, struggling to keep his family's small farm afloat after a world war, believes the secrets of Jet's past may be the key to their survival.

Visitor in the Field

Rust

Nate Cosby

Chris Eliopoulos

Unconquerable

Cow Boy Vol. 2

Tim Beedle

Paul Morrissey

Stephen Christy

Experience new worlds of storytelling as Archaia proudly presents the first-ever Free Comic Book Day original graphic novella hardcover anthology.

Featuring all-new, never-before seen short stories from the worlds of David Petersen's Mouse Guard, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, Jim McCann and Janet K. Lee's Return of the Dapper Men, Royden Lepp's Rust, Jeremy Bastian's Cursed Pirate Girl, and Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulous's Cow Boy.

A Free Comic Book Day Hardcover Anthology

Mouse Guard, Labyrinth and Other Stories

Rachel Woods comes from a small town in Vermont, with a big lovable family, big dreams, and a big heart. But following an explosive revelation from her family on her wedding day, Rachel moves overseas to London with her new husband and hasn't seen her family in three years. ﻿Now divorced, she returns home to a family reunion at the lake but while there, the past and present situations of everyone in the family come to light. Her older sister, Maggie is grappling with a philandering husband; her brother, Max is working hard as a single father; and younger sister, Erica is struggling to get back into the good graces of Maggie following a terrible mistake. Her parents have certainly aged, but what is her mother not telling her about her father's heart? Is a week in the woods long enough to bring this family back together?﻿ ﻿ Told through the lens of the various members of the Woods family, this novel will welcome you with open arms to a family filled with love, secrets, and the ultimate test to find their way back to each other.

A Week at the Woods

FCBD Ten Year Celebration 2015 FCBD Special

Carmen Espinoza is finally leaving her mother today, but before she goes, she needs one more thing-the "before" photo. The photo is the only evidence that her family was once normal, happy, and together. Before her brother died. Beginning her senior year as a foreign exchange student in Oaxaca, Mexico, Carmen believes her normal life is about to begin, but when she sees her dead brother during the Day of the Dead festivities, she soon discovers that leaving your past behind is not as simple as packing a bag.

The Exquisite and Immaculate Grace of Carmen Espinoza

A. G. Henley

Kristi Helvig

Corinne O'Flynn

Sue Duff

Shawn McGuire

Wendy Terrien

Seven Fantasy and Science Fiction authors have twisted time into tales of adventure, mystery, horror, and romance. A serial killer returns years later to finish what was started. A coffee shop offers a respite for the cursed. A hangover masks the horrors of the previous night. A princess's wedding gift comes with a price. A locked apartment door hides a chilling secret. A girl wakes up in an asylum and must survive, and escape. A young woman must protect the past to thwart a thief from the future. All it takes is a second . . . a minute . . . an hour . . . for everything to change.

Seven Tales of Time

Tick Tock

Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She’s worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at eighteen when the assailant, who shot and killed her famous father, pushed her from the third-story landing of their gold coast mansion. But lately, Mia is losing control and feels she’s being watched wherever she goes. The eyes…they are everywhere. She is trying to keep herself together and is taking more and more of her prescription drugs to quiet the rising panic and anxiety. But when her husband, Alexander, comes home to find her face down on their living room floor, she’ll need to make some drastic changes, or risk losing her girls. Alexander Strauss, neuropsychologist and professor at Columbia University, can no longer trust his wife. Her behavior and moods have grown evermore erratic since the birth of their twin girls six years ago. She has lost too much weight, covers herself from head to toe in only black clothing, and has removed every mirror from their home. She has a cadre of doctors that supply plenty of medications but don’t help her make any progress. She has become a danger to herself, and their children. It has long been believed that Mia will never be able to remember her life prior to the assault, but Alexander has other ideas. Based on her recent brain images, and the things she says in her sleep, Alexander is confident Mia’s continued amnesia is purely psychological. Whatever the reason, she doesn’t want to remember. He gives her an ultimatum, either she gets real help, or he’ll leave her and take the girls. Desperate to save her marriage and keep her family intact, Mia signs up for one of the few therapies she’s never tried before—an experimental treatment that hypothesizes psilocybin may help traumatized patients process and recover their forgotten lives. But as Mia makes progress and her history begins to take shape, it becomes apparent that those closest to Mia never want her to remember what happened that night. And they’ll do whatever it takes to stop the truth from being uncovered.

Once Upon a Lie

David Benmayer

Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature (Bryan Cheyette), theatre (Judi Herman) and film (Nathan Abrams), the essays explore the role of confidence in the cultural output of minority communities, and ask whether the trends identified look set to continue over the coming years. Commissioned to mark the twentieth anniversary of Jewish Renaissance magazine, the book includes a foreword by Howard Jacobson and is interspersed with a selection of the best articles from the magazine’s archive, including pieces by the director Mike Leigh, author Linda Grant and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris.

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